Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present

Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present
Author: Kate Fisher
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230354122

An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless draw on older ideas and language.